You might never have thought about the need for anti-virus jeans before but apparently you need them. The good news is that you will be able to actually buy them soon. The internet clothing firm Betabrand has teamed up with the anti-virus company Norton to make trousers that are hard for hackers to get past. The reason for this type of jeans to even exist is to stop thieves...
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If there is one thing lacking from most pairs of jeans it is, frankly, a minty smell. After all, everything in life is better with a bit of mint, isn’t it? Well, your longing for that fresh smell on your denims is about to end very soon. This is because the nice people at Naked & Famous have come up with an idea which might just catch on; scratch & sniff jeans....
Let’s start off by facing up to a simple fact; we have all fancied wearing an invisibility cloak at some point. Wouldn’t it be great if we could slip one of these things on and, well, become invisible, frankly? There are lots of reasons for not wanting to be seen and not all of them are illegal. However, until now we could only dream about sneaking about like Harry...
It was about time, wasn’t it? We are almost into 2014 and the world has cried out for a pillow or piece of clothing which changes colour for quite some time now. Well, cry out no more. The Meiji University in Japan is the home of the new LightCloth. A group of researchers there have managed to come up with a fabric which changes colour on demand. It is woven from a number...
So, you are on the beach with your flip-flop sandals and you have a raging thirst but nothing to drink. We’ve all been there at some point. A serious design flaw in most types of beach wear is that it provides you with few decent and hygienic places to store drinks. You’ve never thought of putting some refreshing liquids in your footwear before now, have you? A Secret...
Summer might have come and gone yet again but what if you still get a bit hot under the collar at work? Anyone who has to wear a shirt and tie to work knows that this kind of gear can result in feeling a hot and sticky by the end of the working day. Who is going to help you have a happier and cooler time while you in your office working away? That’s right; Japanese inventors...
With smart technology being added into so many different things these days it was only a matter of time before someone starting messing with our blooming socks. The people behind this new idea are from the US and the firm is called Heapsylon. The great thing about these smart socks is that they err, well, basically they help you monitor your balance and way of walking....
We have all been in the situation where we have got home and realised that the pair of jeans we just bought looks ludicrous on us, haven’t we? It is easy to get flustered and confused in changing room hell but thankfully there is now a gadget which will help you find the perfect jeans every time. It is called Me-Ality and it is really rather clever. It works by scanning...
It is always good to see technology being used to fight crime, and that is exactly what is being done in India right now. The country was shocked by a recent brutal rape case and an aeronautical engineering student called Manisha Mohan decided to take action. Using her technical knowledge she and friends Rimpi Tripathi and Niladhri Basu Bal came up with a solution which...
The recent weather has been a real downer but has at least provided great conversation material (it’s kind of our thing in Britain). It has also provided ample opportunity to test drive some new winter technology and over the past three weeks we’ve looked at touchscreen gloves. We’ve been to Iceland and back in the meantime too, narrowing down two of...
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